“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” By E.M. Forster

Digital Citizenship is about teaching students how to appropriately use the internet. One important lesson to teach students is how to search on the internet. Often times teachers assume students know how to do this or they don’t know how to search well so they don’t teach it. For example: If they are looking for information on ecosystems often times I watch people just type in ecosystems verse being specific on what they need. Such as: ecosystems, lesson plans, 5th grade. You get very different information and we need to teach that to students.

One of my new favorite kid-friendly web search is Kiddle powered by editors and Google safe search. I like to use this site to teach students how to search but in a safe learning environment.